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| 2012.11.487 |
Date: c. 1944
Title: A Portrait of Hiro, Nak, and Suyo; Lavington, BC
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Here's what my Dad (George Nakamura)says:
ReplyDeleteI'm the one in the middle. Hiro Kawaguchi, me, Tsuyo Tagami. It was taken when we went apple picking in Vernon during our summer holidays from high school, We had to dig a ditch for something during a lapse in apple picking.
It was 1943, and we were living in Popoff. We were transported by an open truck to a Vernon apple ranch called Howe's Ranch, just like a bunch of cattle. We stayed in a bunk house converted from a barn. There were about 30 to 40 of us, all boys around 14 to 16 years of age. We used to make 7 cents a box to pick apples and there were about four of us fast pickers who used to pick a 100 boxes and used to call it a day. In fact the four of us had a pact that as soon as one of us picked a hundred we'd help the others get their hundred. We were very unselfish in those days and sent all the money home to mom. The apple season was Sept. to the end of Oct. and were excused from school as a wartime effort which we were very happy about.